The Turbulent Aftermath of Love and Betrayal

In the evening, Chen came back, wrapped in a thick blanket. Mo took a step forward and then stopped. Looking at Chen, Mo opened his mouth but didn't say anything.

Chen saw Mo. He didn't say anything, and fortunately, there was no sign of resentment or anger on his face.

Was it really fortunate...

Chen just glanced at him, and the only expression on his face was extreme exhaustion. Under Mo's silence, a group of people walked past him and took Chen to the bedroom upstairs.

...You can scold me, blame me, or even hit me.

Mo's heart tightened, and tears welled up in his eyes.

Just don't... don't treat me like a stranger!

Sitting down on the sofa, although Mo didn't want to cry in front of these strangers, he couldn't help it.

Covering his face, he cried in a suppressed manner. But the people present seemed to be like the air, allowing him to sob without saying a word.

When he was tired from crying, Mo lay down on the sofa and fell asleep.

He didn't know when, those people also left the house and returned to their original positions.

The house was silent.

When he woke up, he continued to cry. When he was tired, he fell asleep again. When he woke up for the second time, Xin was covering him with a quilt. In Mo's hazy eyes, Xin seemed to be full of confusion and doubt.

"Why? What kind of spell did you cast on the doctor?" Xin suddenly asked, and then, she suddenly closed her mouth. "Sorry. Please pretend you didn't hear that."

Xin left in a hurry, as if running away in a panic.

The quilt was warm, but he could still feel the cold early - autumn wind blowing in through the crack of the door.

In a half - asleep and half - awake state, it seemed that someone came down from upstairs, approached, and stopped beside him.

He was too tired to open his eyes, and that person just stood beside him.

"I know you're not asleep... No, don't open your eyes. Just answer my question like this."

Mo just pursed his lips.

"...Do you love Ye Rufeng?" Chen said, trembling slightly.

"...No."

"You're lying. You slept with him." Chen's voice was cold.

"...I was drunk!" Mo clenched his hands.

"You're lying. When you slept with him, you were calling his name!" Chen suddenly howled, and Mo suddenly opened his eyes.

Chen was holding his head, and his bloodshot eyes were staring fiercely at him.

"Chen, it was just one night!" Mo got up and cried too.

Chen shook his head. "Once is enough, Shen Moxin. To break my heart, once is enough."

"Chen, don't be like this. I admit it was my fault. But... but I drank some wine that day, and I was so lonely. Brother Ye, who had accompanied me for several days, suddenly confessed to me. I couldn't control myself for a moment, so..." Tears streamed down Mo's cheeks.

"...Yes." Chen closed his eyes. "Yes, I knew it. I knew that distance would erode our love."

"No, it's not like that!" Mo grabbed the hem of Chen's pajamas and pleaded. "It was just this once. I regretted it so much after I sobered up. I only have a brotherly affection for him. It's different from my feelings for you, Chen!"

Closing his eyes tightly, Chen gritted his teeth. Then, Mo noticed that tears welled up from the corners of Chen's eyes.

"...Chen?"

"Do you know? I missed you so much, all the time..." Chen murmured, and his tone made Mo feel terrified.

"I love you so much, Mo. So much..." Chen sobbed and lost his voice. Just as Mo was about to speak, Chen continued.

"I love you so much, Mo. So much!" Bending down, suddenly, Chen hugged Mo tightly. The hug was quite painful, but Mo didn't even complain. Instead, he tensed up, concentrated, and listened nervously. He didn't dare... didn't dare to miss a single word from him.

"Do you know... Life there was so hard, so hard... Those who were eliminated couldn't go back either. Beside my original laboratory, the fire in the incinerator never stopped. One day, a person from the same province as me was taken away. God, the smell of burning human flesh wafted into my laboratory. I held the toilet and kept vomiting and vomiting..." Crying, Chen wept. Mo carefully hugged Chen, and Chen didn't resist.

"I was almost crazy. I vomited for a whole day. I called your name all day long, begging you to give me the strength to keep living... Do you know, Mo..."

"I know." Mo tightly grasped Chen's clothes.

"I dreamed that one day, when I finished my work... The country would let me go back and find you..." This time, Chen tightly grasped Mo. "But... you betrayed me!"

Suddenly, Chen pushed Mo away violently and stood up abruptly.

"You betrayed me!"

Mo fell onto the sofa, feeling a slight pain, but he quickly stood up again.

"No! It was just an accident!"

"You're lying! You've been thinking about other things these days!"

"No! I... I just... I just felt lonely..." Dejected, Mo sat down on the sofa again. "I don't know. I don't know! Chen, it was so sudden for me to come here. I still had so many things to do originally. As soon as you brought me here, I've been worried. Also, Bihua and Ye... I, I didn't mean to..." Mo quickly tried to explain.

"Bihua and Ye, I understand. You miss them... No, you miss him." Disheartened, Chen said. "Then go back, Mo. Go back."

"No! I... I want to stay, Chen. I want to stay." Grabbing Chen's sleeve again, Mo said quickly.

"What's the point of staying? To pity me? No need. Your body is here, but your heart isn't. However, thanks to you, I can finally get rid of their control..." Chen said coldly. "Go on, go back. Be with your Ye. I don't care if you live or die."

Pushing aside Mo's hand, Chen walked upstairs without looking back.

Until Mo was sent back to the original world, Chen never appeared again. To be exact, after Mo cried himself to sleep on the sofa again and woke up, he was already in his own room.

All his things were back, placed in their original positions. The difference was that the wreckage of a crushed mobile phone was in the pocket of his suit jacket, seemingly a witness to his dream - like experience.

"Chen..." Mo sat down on the floor weakly.

When he returned to school, the school authorities didn't say anything about his without cause absence for many days. Only a few students were excitedly guessing about his whereabouts.

"Ah, teacher, there's a hickey on your neck..." A female student said teasingly. However, Mo burst into tears on the spot.

In silence, several students looked at each other, their eyes full of confusion.

Walking home alone, he almost lost the ability to think. Was this what it meant to be a walking corpse...

Standing still, Mo watched the vehicles speeding back and forth in front of him.

The traffic signal changed colors. Mo stood there as if for a century, and then, he took a step forward.

"Xiaomo!"

Suddenly, he was pulled back by a man. Standing unsteadily, Mo looked up and saw Ye Rufeng's face.

"My god, it's really you! Why did you run a red light? What happened to you these days?"

Looking at Ye Rufeng's surprised and delighted expression, Mo only felt dizzy.

If it weren't for him, if it weren't for him!

"I'll kill you!" Madly, Mo punched Ye Rufeng, with a terrifying strength and expression.

"Xiaomo!" Quickly dodging, Ye Rufeng looked at Mo in astonishment.

"I'll kill you! If it weren't for you! If it weren't for you!" Snatching a pedestrian's cane at random, amidst the exclamations of the crowd, Mo chased and hit Ye Rufeng.

"Xiaomo! What's wrong with you!" Not daring to confront Mo head - on, Ye Rufeng shouted while dodging. "Xiaomo! I'm Brother Ye!"

"I'll kill you!"

Chasing him across three streets, until he was subdued by the patrolling police who came upon hearing the commotion. Mo's eyes went dark, and he fainted.

"You see, doctor. Mr. Shen and Mr. Ye don't seem to get along well." Xin smiled gently.

Lying in the hospital bed, with an IV drip and restraint straps, Chen just smiled.

A TV was wheeled in front of the hospital bed, and Mo's abnormal behavior on the street had just been broadcast. Regarding Xin's commentary beside him, Chen just smiled, kept smiling, and laughed hysterically.

"Is that so? So what?" He seemed to be laughing until he was almost out of breath.

"Mr. Shen should love you, doctor. A momentary mistake and confusion should be forgiven." Xin said gently.

"Oh? Then why did you tie me up like this?" Chen stopped laughing, but there was still a trace of a smile on his face.

"...If you can promise that you won't hurt yourself again, we will naturally release you." Xin still smiled gently.

"I just took the wrong medicine. It's not that serious." Chen chuckled.

"Yeah, you just accidentally injected potassium salt." Xin smiled slightly. "We almost lost you, doctor. You got the wrong medicine from the laboratory three miles away, doctor."

"...Then I promise I won't do it again." Chen smiled.

"What will you use as a guarantee, doctor?" Xin smiled.

"What do you want me to use as a guarantee?" Chen raised his eyebrows.

"If you do it again, we will harm Mr. Shen." Xin smiled gently.

"Xiaomo, what on earth happened to you?" Bihua asked helplessly as she took Mo out of the police station.

"Nothing." Mo said softly.

"Brother Ye said you kept saying you wanted to kill him... Where did you go these days when you were missing, and what happened to you?"

"Nothing." Mo turned his head.

"Nothing? You wouldn't want to kill Ye Rufeng for nothing. You've always had a good relationship..."

"Shut up!" Suddenly, Mo turned his head and shouted shrilly.

Bihua was stunned.

"...Sorry. I'm not feeling well recently..." Mo apologized and said tiredly. Covering his eyes, Mo turned his head away again.

"...Do you want to see a doctor? Xiaomo, have you been waiting for Chen for too long, so..."

"No... Bihua, it's not like that..." Suddenly crying out loud, Mo sobbed.

"...Xiaomo? My god, Xiaomo, what's wrong with you?" Anxiously, Bihua grabbed his clothes.

"When you see Brother Ye, please apologize for me. It was my fault. I shouldn't have blamed him..." Mo continued to cry, making Bihua panic.

"I don't understand. What on earth happened between you two?"

"Tell him not to appear in front of me. No... Please ask him not to appear in front of me again. Let me be alone. Please, don't care about me anymore."

Walking home alone again. Mo walked on the street with a faint smile. Today, in the school library, he found a photo of Chen. It was a photo taken during a football friendly match between their school and T University. Counting it up, it was almost fifteen years ago... Walking along, Mo unconsciously touched his chest. The photocopied photo was safely tucked in his wallet.

When he took the students to the library to look up books, he accidentally found the yellowed photo in the corner of the wall, which was from that match at T University. Chen, who was thrown high into the air by the crowd, was wildly kissing the golden cup in his hand.

This was the advantage of teaching at Chen's alma mater. He could be surprised at any time by finding something related to Chen...

"Be careful!"

He was violently pushed aside, and at the same time, he heard a gunshot. Mo, who fell far to the ground, saw Ye Rufeng kneeling on the ground. Blood was flowing from his body.

The murderer was right in front, still holding a short gun. When he saw Ye Rufeng's appearance, he was stunned for a moment. Then, he seemed to hear some order from the earphone, and he approached Ye Rufeng, as if he wanted to fire another shot.

"No!" Mo rushed forward and stood between the two. The cold muzzle of the gun was less than three feet away from him.

"...Shen Moxin won't let me kill Ye Rufeng. What should I do?" The man said in a low voice towards his mouthpiece.

Hearing this, Mo shivered.

"...Okay, I understand." The man actually left as soon as he said so.

"Wait a minute! Don't leave!" To the surprise of everyone, Mo actually grabbed the man's long sleeve.

"Don't hold me back!" The man shook off Mo, and Mo fell to the ground in pain. "If you keep dawdling here, be careful your lover bleeds to death." Teasingly kissing the gun, the man left without looking back.

No one dared to stop him.

"No! He's not my lover! You have to believe me. I don't love him at all!" Shouting anxiously, Mo's voice turned into a cry.

"Did you see that, doctor? If there's a next time, this bullet will go through Mr. Shen's head." Kou paused the screen on the blood on Ye Rufeng's body after pushing Mo aside.

"Oh." Chen said listlessly.

"Let me go. I have to go back to the laboratory." Chen said as if nothing had happened.

"...Can you promise that you won't endanger your life again in the future?" Kou's smile was also very gentle.

"Oh." Chen yawned.

"...If you do it again, we can't guarantee Mr. Shen's safety." Kou still smiled.

"Oh." Chen said coldly.

"...Doctor, if you want, we'd be happy to make sure Mr. Ye leaves Mr. Shen forever."

Chen fell silent.

"...In fact, please keep watching..." A glimmer of light flashed in Kou's eyes.

"...You saw that although Mr. Shen and Mr. Ye have a good relationship, it doesn't seem to be a romantic one."

"Oh." Chen sneered. "He even dared to block the bullet for him. That's quite a bit of courage. If I had a friend like that, I wouldn't even dare to say a word."

When Chen looked at Ye Rufeng on the screen, a faint look of jealousy and hatred showed in his eyes. However, it didn't escape Kou's eyes that were carefully watching him and the monitor on the wall.